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POB&WQJfO COMPACT. ?rjMTBB, B. 0. ? ? ? ? UM mm muHi adv I - iinmii.i urn M months, or ?A reduced rate* iea?oatlaa* ?hloh euo prtvata titntjU wUI bo charged m and tributes of woo found Ol Im UM aad the Tree ftouthron in lee Wssnhsssn nod Bouthrcn the eosnbiaed circulation end of both of the old papers. r. Thm Work's Weather Forecast. For the South Atlantic and East Gulf mates: The weather will be generally fair. with temperatures above the seasonal average during the J_J ' * WHY REPUDIATE ABLE SRRVICE? Commenting on Prof. McCain's let tor endorsing Oov. Manning's admin? istration and advocating his re-elec? tion for a second term, the Spartan barg Herald concisely and unanswera? bly soots up the case as follows: "P >f. McCain pretenta In this tetter the argument we aave advanced and also tahso the same position The laa taken with regard to the lldacy of Mr. Cooper, for had the absg solicitor been elected governor two years ago and served the State so faithfully and so well as Qovsrnor Manning, we would today be advo? cating his re-election as a means of recognition deserved "When Booth Carolina repudiates a governor who has mads his adminis? tration one that has put law and or dec foremost, that fact is certain to giro encouragement to those who * oold violate ths law. We believe the state ahouki stand pat for law and or? der and give approval to a governor who has made that the motto of his Administration ."_ PAXVILLE NEWS ITEMS. 'rVEL Bart Taacfaers for Year? is*/A. R Cartes Goes to Anaistoit, of**~ Fasvllie. Aug. 1?.?At a recent mooting, ths trustees of the Paxvllls graded school, consisting of Messrs. W. R. Keels, T. R. Owen, and C. H. ?roadway, elected the following teachers for ths coming year: Mlas Alethoa Edmonds, from Mulllns, prln dpa); Miss Alice Broadway of this town for the Intermediate grades, and Miss Catherine McLaur n of 8umter for ths primary department. The trustees are now soliciting private subscriptions for repaint in the school heajalag. Mr. Jerry Anderson and family, from Manassers, Oa., after a two months visit to relativen here, return? ed home Wednesday Misses Alice and Emily Broadway will leave Thursday for a visit to their sister. Mrs. Jeff J. Martin, at Princess Anne, Md. They will also visit Norfolk, Baltimore, Washington and other points before returning hums. Ths Woman's Christian Temper? ance Union held a very interesting masting at the home of Mrs. M. 8. Broadway near town, on Tuesday af ternoon The subject for discussion was "Unfermented Wine." Mrs Elma Ttsdale. and Mis Maggte Corbott will leave Fr'iay for a visit to -slatlves at Sprirrg Hill. Mr. A. B. Curtis left Friday for Annlston. Ala., where he will engage In the real estate and Insurance bus Mrs. Ferris Cannon was here last week visiting her sister, Mrs. H. Cain, before returning ot her home at Ches terfleld Mr. W. L. Brunson, Jr., and family from gumter spent last week hero visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Pat Hodge has accepted a po? sition as salesman In the store of Mr. O. H. Curtis for the fall season. PTBI.IC NOTICE. Notice la horeby given of a school elsctlon to be held In 8hlloh School District No. 13. Tuesday. August 29th. at Lone Oak School House, between the hours of 7 o'clock A. M. and I o'clock P. M for .he purpose of vot? ing >*n extra levy of three (3) mills, for school purposes. Only qualified electors, showing registration certificates and tax re? ceipts, and who pay either real es? tate or personal property tax. may he allowed to vote, by law. The trustees will act as mannaers of election. By order Board of Kdueatlon. Sum tsr County. .1 C. Tlll'LCCK. chairman Shlloh Dl?hlct If, ANOTHER BOOSTER TRIP. NEW ROUTE TO BE FOLLOWED IX COMMUNITY BUILDING TOUR ON AUGUST 25TH. Lynchburg to Furnliih Dinner for Boosters?Other Places to Re Vlsit ed are Oswego, Maycsville, St. Oharftes, Elliott mid Wlaacky. "I just couldn't stand the pres? sure, Ju.st had to put It on," said Sec rotary Reardon In announcing that the second 1916 community boost?n?i tour wlh be puled off on August 25th, to Mayesvllle, Oswego, St. Charles, El? liotts, and Lynchburg. Said the secretary further: "When the charming and hospitable ladles of the Lynchburg Civic Improvement Leaguo phoned me this afternoon that they would entertain the Sumter coun? ty boosters with a delightful live course chicken dinner, together with country cured ham, biscuits, cakej, pies, salads, etc. (I don't know what that 'etc' stands for), but I know Us something good if it comes out of Lynchburg, I just had to throw up the sponge and give in to Dave McCallura, "Zim" Hea- a, Lad Boyle, Henry M?? gt ~ ?r W. H. Shelly, and other W' .1. local chicken destroyers, and. start advertising this booster trip. ?The Itinerary includes Mayesv.lle again because we have Just got to square ourselves with that hospitable and hustling town for not getting there on August 2nd owing to our bunch of boosters having been so de? lightfully "over fed" at Sardinia that they could not boost. They were so self satisfied and complacent after the Sardinia ladles petted and charmed them/ and they yielded to temptation to quit business and.go to a baseball game after the Sardinia ladles quit noticing them. Knowing in advance that these Lynchburg ladles are go? ing to so completely mesmerize our Sumter boosters by their delightful hospitality, and splendid dinner that the Sumter crowd won't work any after dinner, we won't have any other place* for that day on this trip, but we) erttl hold a two hour community interest meeting at Lynchburg and a thirty or forty minute meeting at the other hospitable and hustling little cities to be visited on August 26th. There has been a great demand for another day's pleasure outing of Sum? ter county'a business and professional men. There has never been a regu? lar community boosting tour to any of these places above mentioned, and nvitatlons have been extended to the ?Chamber ef Commerce to put on a booster trip to those places. Not much time Is allowed for boost? ing the booster tour, so Sumter's busi? ness men had better get busy having appropriate booster signs painted for their automobiles. As on all former booster trips, the Sumter Chamber of Commerco most cordially Invites our friends from all sections of Sumter and Lee counties, and the ladles from everywhere to Join In and swell the crowd, and by their presence contribute much to the pleas? ures of the day. Notes of City Schools. All of the chairs for the auditorium of the girls' high school have been in? stalled. The desks and other furni? ture for this building will be Installed by September the 10th. A part of the street force under the direction of Mr. White, the superin? tendent of streets, has been raising the level of the school campus. This will be a great convenience for the pupils next fall. If the city council should decide ot put a cement walk across the school campus. It will serve the double pur? pose of a skating place for the chil? dren and a walk for the general pub? lic, when It la not being used by the children. The public schools of the city, as previously announced, will resume work on the 18th of September. Superintendent Edmunds is still re? ceiving letters of inquiry with refer? ence to military training in the high school. One wan received today from the board of education of Fort Dodge, Iowa, asking for the minutest details Cncersteg the methods used In the Schools of Sumter. SUMTER COTTON MARKET. Corrected Dally by Ernest Field, Cot? ton Buyer. Good Middling 14. Strict Middling 13 3-4. Middling 13 1-2. Strict Low Middling 13. LOW Middling 12 1-2. An expert of the Cadillac <'o. came front Columbia Friday to rc-wlrc and adjust the H-cyllnder touring car of Mr. H. W. Woodward, which had caught fire from defective wiring or carburetor adjustment Sunday night In Sumter. The lire was put out by the Sumter Fire Department with chemicals, before any d?i mage was done. Rtahonvtlts Lender 'mil Vlndl' cs tor. Tho South a Buyer Instead of a Seller. Mr. L. F. Scott, of Dccatur, Ga., has waked up to the economic disadvan? tage of the South in being a buyer irstead of a seller. Probably Mr. Scott his known all along that a consuming country is at the mercy of a produc? ing country, but the trouble is that the great majority of our people have not waked up to the fact. Many are waking up all right, hut the thins to do la to get the whole South to wake up. When that is done It will be easy for us to know why the aver? age farmer can barely make both ends meet instead of being able to have at least a small surplus at the end of the year. Of course, if he buys more than he sells he will not make both end* meet but will be in debt at Oie end of the year. Mr. Scott has been figuring on that proposition, so he wrtes to the Atlanta Constitution: "The Southern people are almost exclusively buyers of everything we use from baled hay to automobiles. There Is the case of our crop of cot? ton that is raised in great part by tenants on farms that are not, and will never become, diversified, thus giv? ing the world $800,000,000 to $1,000, 000,000 every year in cotton and cot? ton aeed at about the cost of produc? tion. From the average selling price of the 1915 cotton crop received by those who produced it at a lower price than it has since sold for, since as pro? ducers they had to part with it, and buying the same cotton back in man? ufactured goods, after the "cotton brokers" had levied a higher price on ths same cotton, leaves the consumer v. his own product to be scarcely able to get enough cash to clothe his fa mily. "Since the European war there has been a restless desire exhibited by ev? ery kind of manufacturing plant to raise prices, and under the guise of being influenced by a great foreign demand for goods, have found an easy mark in actually robbing over 100, 0(0,000 American consumers. It would be 8.11 right for our government to allow*, any surplus of any kind of American goods to leave our* ports, and at whatever price the traffic will stand, but when our own citizens and workmen become involved in the hold? up and commercial robbery, a halt should have been promptly called. "It has been sadly overlooked Uuyt for months the American consumer has been forced to pay 8c for sugar that under no condition should have been over 5 cents per pound. The crop of wheat the world over, as well as all cereals, for the years 191^-14 15, was the largest ever harvested,' and with a two years' war demand and plenty of wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley, Chicago has recently marked up the price of wheat that will cost every American family a-bout 10 cents for each 48-pound sack of flour, and so over one hundred million people in America are being unjustly robbed on everything we eat and wear, and on everything In the line of metal and builders' hardware, and all unneces? sarily, and to the hurt and damage of all legitimate building enterprise. "Exports! of foodstuffs for the fis? cal year just ended shows breadstuffs suffered the greatest loss in compari? son w:.th previous years, wheat being $118,000,000; oats, $9,600,000; corn, $8,800,000; flour $8,000,000 less. "So It Is easy to see there Is now no reason for alarm as to an unusual demand for the above goods, yet the prices are abnormally high to the American consumer. "Last year the news was flashed over tie land that there was not enough leather to make shoes for the people, and it later developed -there was no truth in the statement. The paper situation is in the same boat and it is now announced it will be a hard matter to get enough supplies for the American school children; so, again, every American family is to be still further robbed. "America produces wealth wonder? fully, and yet distributes it infamous? ly, and if there is not some halt called, whatever money is received by the South for our products of raw mate-4 rial will not be sufficient to meet the demands of the barest subsistence, and after the 1915 debts shall have been paid, there will be very little left." Mr. Scott has waked up to the fact that high prices are tough on a con? suming country, such as the South is, but he overlooks that they create an immense amount of prosperity and satisfaction in a producing and selling country, such as the west. He is think? ing from tin Southern standpoint, but includes the whole country, seemingly not recognising the main fact that raising cotton at cost or a little above makes 8 cents sugar and other high priced foodstuffs and clothing a great burden to us, while producing coun? tries which are reaping big prices do not feel the high prices for the little that they buy of the commodities that they do not produce themselves, j Mr. Scott suggests the wrong rem |edy and one that is impossible. The government ran neither limit our ex? ports nor tax them, but it has sought to relieve our burdens by lowering the tariff tax on what we import, al thougb the war in Burope came atony and set our low tariff at naught. With wsi prices continuing and u higher tariff, such as tho Republican! pro? pose to levy, our burdens in the buying South would be further increased, be? cause higher tariff benefits to be added to the cost of American manufactures would not only make them still high? er, but necessarily would increase the cost of imported manufactures and possibly their prohibition altogether. That, as a matter of course, would place buyers and consumers at the mercy of American producers of the goods and commodities which we have to buy. So far as the South is concerned, the real remedy is an economic one that she can apply herself. It is in the diversification of her farm am", factory production. We pay out too much for meat and bread that we should produce ourselves, and we pay out huge amounts for building mater? ials and various manufactured pro? ducts that we could produce much cheaper in the South. So long as we raise cotton, even at a small profit, with which to buy a hundred other things, we will have to be content to make both ends meet If our $1,000,000,000 cotton crop were to make us as high a profit as 25 per cent, we would have only $250,000, 000 with which to purchase meat and bread, wearing apparel, shoes, sugar, automobiles, pianos, building mater? ial, etc. Don't we really buy more of those things than we have money with which to pay? Can sve afford to keep on buying instead of doing more selling? A few days ago it was announced from Ra? leigh, the capital of the great State of North Carolina, that the people of this buying State purchased 10,000 automobiles during the past year. A friend of ours estimated that these chug wagons average $600 apiece and figured that it meant the sending of $6,000,000 out of the State, les? commissions. He thought it indicated prosperity, but there are others who will call it extravagance, even In the great manufacturing and agricultural State of North Carolina. At any rate, it represents a 6 per cent, outlay on $100,000,000 of North Carolina's farm and factory produc? tion. We guess North Carolina is just simply prosperous because she has more diversified agricultural and manr ufacturing interests than any other Southern State.?Wilmington Star. Y. M. C. A. Contributions. A number of additional contribu? tions for the fund to carry on the V. M. C. A. work among the South Car? olina troops at El Paso, Texas, have been received, as follows: Previously acknowledged .. ..$15.00 W. It Graham., , , .. 1.00 Mrs. J. H. Chandler. 1.00 Jas. C. Bryan. 1.00 S. R. Chandler. 1.00 L. C. Bryan. 1.00 S. M. McLeod. 1.00 Ohas. Ath Macheros. 1.00 R. S. Hood. 1.00 Deuward Bultman. 1.00 C G. Rowland. 1.09 Miss L. E. Robinson. 1.00 I. L. Gantt. 1.00 Mrs. Robt. T. Brown. 1.00 Mrs. Minnie F. Hall. 1.00 MRS. R. L. WRIGHT DEAD. Passe? Away Very Suddenly of Acute Indigestion at Hospital. From The Daily Item. Mrs. Leila Edwards Wright, wife of Mr. R. L. Wright, died at the Tourney Hospital this afternoon at about 4 o'clock of acute indigestion. Death came a few minutes after she was taken ill. Mrs. Wright had been ill for some time and had been operated on at the hospital about three weeks ago. She had partially recovered from this op? eration and was in good spirits and thought to he on the road to good health up to a few minutes before her death. The news of Mrs. Wright's death came as a painful surprise and shock to her many friends in Sumter this afternoon. FOR RENT?My furnished home, for summer, In the mountains, Lenoir, Hi C. Cool, shady; no dust. S. A. Grier. Hickory, N. C. just issued, tells all about Crimson Clover, Alfalfa and all Grass and Clover Seeds for Fall Planting. Wood's Fall Seed Catalog also gives full and complete Infor? mation about Vegetable Seeds that can be planted to advantage and profit in the late Summer and Fall. It Is altogether the most use? ful and valuable Fall Seed Catalog issued. Mailed free to Gardeners, Market Growers and Farmers on request. Write for it. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. The Original Tuikish Blend THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN It's the man behind the gun who makes it formidable; and it's the men behind a Bank who make it conservative. In all our business transactions this Bank seeks not popular? ity for itself, but safety for its depositors. We seek to be accommodating?we are always courteous?but the main? tenance of our standards of conservatism are ever and al? ways with us the first consideration. ?If you admire standards of conser? vatism, may we be favored with your business and honored by a personal cr ;i? THE PEOPLES BANK. Wnnilllllllllllllliin.mum.mi.mn.,,,,,,,, |mm||mrr^ m ? t m HH H H ? t HtHMf f.llMJlU f MIO-COTij FOR OUR BOYS ON THE BORDER The First National Bank of Sumter will accept your dollar and deliver it to the proper authorities for the Y. M. C. A. work among our boys on the Border. I The Fir?t National Bank i SUMTER, S. C. The Oldest Banking Institution in the County Lumber, Lime, Cement, BUILDING MATERIAL GENERALLY AND FEED OF ALL KINDS. BOOTH & McLEOD, Successors to Booth'Shuler Lumber Sc Supply Co. Geo, Epperson's Old Strand Opp. Court House EVERYTHING AT ONE PLACE. 1 SEASHORE ?AND? MOUNTAIN EXCURSION Wednesday, August 23rd, 1916 ?VIA THE? Atlantic Coast Line The Standard Railroad of The South FARES FROM SUMTER Atlantic City, N.J. $15.25 Baltimore, Md. $12.25 , Washington, D. C. $10.25 Richmond. Va. $ 8.25 Norfolk, Va. $ 8.25 Wilmington, N. C. $ 5.65 Asheville, N. C. $ 6.95 And to About Twenty-live Other resorts in North Carolina and smith Carolina? For farce, schedules, ?Iroplf car accommodations and any do S sired Information, call ?>n O, V. Player, Ticket Agent, Suniter, S. C. Atlantic Coast Line Jj Tho Standard Railroad of The South